{"id":933,"date":"2014-04-11T20:51:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T20:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/11\/for-every-one-dollar-increase-in-local\/"},"modified":"2016-01-30T05:49:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T05:49:54","slug":"for-every-one-dollar-increase-in-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/11\/for-every-one-dollar-increase-in-local\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-933 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/11\/for-every-one-dollar-increase-in-local\/attachment\/934\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3vwl6D7QG1tunfp4o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3vwl6D7QG1tunfp4o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3vwl6D7QG1tunfp4o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong><span>For every one dollar\u00a0increase in (local) agricultural sales, personal income rose by 22 cents over the course of five years.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The motto \u2018Think Globally, Act Locally\u2019 has long been a guiding tenet of the sustainable food movement. But does acting locally really make a difference and if so, what kind of difference? That\u2019s just what a team of economists set out to explore in the study Linkages Between Community-Focused Agriculture, Farm Sales, and Regional Growth, published in Economic Development Quarterly (2014). Their results revealed that yes,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/edq.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2013\/10\/21\/0891242413506610.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">direct farm-to-customer-sales in the form of farmer\u2019s markets and farm visits do make a difference<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 but what kind of difference depends where the farms are located and on how well local communities have built up an supply chain to support this kind of local buying.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodtank.com\/news\/2014\/04\/think-global-buy-local-a-new-study-looks-at-the-impact-of-buying-local-prod\">http:\/\/foodtank.com\/news\/2014\/04\/think-global-buy-local-a-new-study-looks-at-the-impact-of-buying-local-prod<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For every one dollar\u00a0increase in (local) agricultural sales, personal income rose by 22 cents over the course of five years. The motto \u2018Think Globally, Act Locally\u2019 has long been a guiding tenet of the sustainable food movement. But does acting locally really make a difference and if so, what kind of difference? That\u2019s just what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-local-food-economics","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}